the officer lists of the SS. It was expanded to include the following awards: “Wiederholungsspange zum EK II” (Repeat clasp Iron Cross second class), “Wiederholungsspange zum EK I” (Repeat clasp Iron Coss First class), “Ritterkreuz zum Eisernen Kreuz”, “Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz”, “Schwerter zum Eichenlaub”, “Eichenlaub mit Brillianten”, “Kriegsverdienstkreuz” (in two classes, either with or without swords), “Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes” (either with or without swords). It was also recorded whether an SS officer at the front had received the “Deutsches Kreuz” in silver or gold. In the summer of 1944, Heinrich Himmler's Kommandoamt der Waffen-SS (Command Office of the Waffen SS) insisted that the head of the main personnel office, Maximilian von Herff, receive a separate list of seniority for the Waffen SS. The top management of the command office argued that the General SS (Allgemeine SS) would de facto no longer exist since the outbreak of war. Of the 204,000 SS men in the General SS, 60–70 percent would be doing their military service in the Wehrmacht, around 60,000 would be assigned to the IKL and the concentration camps, and the Waffen SS itself would comprise around 900,000 soldiers. Apart from about 10,000 full-time SS leaders, who are organizationally subordinate to the SS-Hauptämter (SS Main Offices), and thus to the Waffen SS, the active General SS would only consist of about 48,000 members. On July 1, 1944, this seniority list of the Waffen-SS (“Dienstaltersliste der Waffen-SS”) was issued as a single exemplar for Maximilian von Herff. In addition to the officers of the Waffen SS at the front, this also included the SS officers in “K.L. Dienst,” that is, the department of the SS-Wirtschaft-Verwaltungshauptamt, Amtsgruppe D. Also, the majority of the Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer were added to the Waffen-SS, so that, in addition to their rank in the General SS, they also held the corresponding military status of the Waffen-SS: “SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS.” The SS- und Polizeiführer, on the other hand, were assigned to the Ordnungspolizei, so that they had a corresponding police rank in addition to their SS rank: “SS-Standartenführer and Oberst of the Ordnungspolizei”, or “SS-Oberführer and Oberst of the Polizei.” The list of the Waffen-SS included the rank groups SS-Obergruppenführer—SS-Hauptsturmführer. On October 1, 1944, the first partial edition of the last few years became the SS officer list, the rank group SS-Obersturmbannführer—SS-Sturmbannführer. This content for November 9, 1944, the second partial edition, the